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Standardize Power BI reports without the theme file pain

Mar 26, 2026
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If you've ever opened a Power BI report from a colleague and thought "why does this look nothing like mine"... you're not alone. Without a shared system, every report ends up being its own little design experiment.

Tomorrow's live session with Jeroen and Lonneke is about fixing that, with the least amount of effort possible. 

The live is on Thursday March 26th, at 4pm (Paris time) on LinkedIn. Plan for about 45 minutes and there'll be time for questions at the end. If you can't make it live, the replay will be available on the same page shortly after (and on Youtube).

We'll walk through how dataviz tokens work inside Power BI templates, why a simple .xlsx file stored on SharePoint or OneDrive is all you need to get started, and how this whole approach is built for people who know they should be using a template but haven't found a reason to start yet.

Particularly useful if you're juggling multiple brands, or if the .json theme file has been sitting in your to-do list for three months.

No complicated setup. Just a more consistent way to build reports.

 

PS: in case you missed it, I shared a teaser yesterday.

 

See you tomorrow 🔴

Julien

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